{"id":77239,"date":"2026-08-14T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:49:31","slug":"why-didnt-nigel-farage-show-up-to-the-clacton-by-election-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77239\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t Nigel Farage show up to the Clacton by-election count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why didn&#039;t Nigel Farage show up to the Clacton by-election count?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dDSmHVSH8Ok\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy didn&#8217;t Nigel Farage show up to the Clacton by-election count?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNigel Farage has been elected as Clacton MP, triggering the automatic resumption of a standards inquiry into a \u00a35m donation to the Reform UK leader.<\/p>\n<p>He won 62% of the vote, and a 36% majority, after having triggered the by-election in protest at media and parliamentary scrutiny of donations from his backers.<\/p>\n<p>He did not attend the by-election count in the town, claiming Essex Police had told him about an \u201corganised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, ITV News understands Essex Police did not tell Mr Farage, or any other candidate, not to attend the count.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t Nigel Farage show up to the Clacton by-election count? Nigel Farage has been elected as Clacton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[49987,43682,380,379,326,325,267],"class_list":["post-77239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-clacton-on-sea","tag-count-binface","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117094223878565842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}